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A New Farm in the Fold

As of January 2012, Full Moon assumed operations at Roots Farm in nearby Winterville, Georgia. Roots is owned by Carl Lindberg & Chris Lutz, dear friends of ours, and is one of the oldest & more fertile organic farms in the region. Roots has a long history of responsible stewardship and community support and we are honored to become a part of its future. As a result, our CSA will nearly double, and the additional acreage will enable us to increase variety, grow more perennials, and spread our farming wings a bit. We will continue to manage our other “Bent Spade” property on Flat Rock Road as well. More love in the box!




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Our Mission

Full Moon Coop is a collective of sustainable fruit and vegetable farms founded in 2002 by a group of farmers, ecologists, culinary artists, activists, and educators. Our mission is to offer innovative and community-based solutions to the most critical environmental, economic, and social challenges of our time. By providing our local communities with an experience that honors the ancient and fundamental connections between food, land and people, we hope to nurture a more sustainable and just future. We practice organic and biodynamic farming techniques, but are not certified.

Adaptive Management

One of the goals of Full Moon is to create an adaptive management model to improve organic farming in the Southeast through the integration of community supported farming and education. Since the late 1970s, adaptive management has been developed as a method to incrementally improve land management by treating choices as a series of experiments. Through continual feedback, adaptive management offers the opportunity for a scientific perspective to inform management practices within a larger context of uncertainty and change. Through the integration of objectives at all levels in the farming system, we seek to develop a functioning model for adaptive management that can be emulated and adapted to other farming systems.


Our Team

Jason Mann, Founder & Director

JASON MANN is a biodynamic farmer, social/environmental entrepreneur, restaurateur, agroecological researcher and community organizer. Jason has been farming for over a decade and has explored agricultural traditions and practices around the globe. His farming practice and philosophy emerge from in-depth training and extensive practice in biodynamics, agroecology, and permaculture systems. Jason is also the founder Moonshine Meats, our pasture-based cow and pig producers cooperative, and successful farm-&-table operations Farm 255 and Farm Burger.


Jack Matthews, Farm Manager

Born and raised in Georgia, Jack graduated from the University of Colorado in 2006 and quickly thereafter chased a life in the country. After spending a growing season apprenticing down the road at Serenbe Farms in Palmetto, GA, Jack headed back out west to help direct the fields of a family farm in the Colorado greenbelt. There he honed his skills as both a farmer and a manager. Jack is pleased to be back in his native landscape, cultivating our vegetables out at Full Moon.


Iwalani Ching Farfour, Assistant Manager

Born in Kealakekua, Hawaii, Iwa has come a long way from her native roots. She has had her hands in the dirt for many years, most recently at the acclaimed Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems in Santa Cruz, where she learned to appreciate the vast amount of energy required by the land, the farmer, the plants and the animals to produce a simple meal. She hopes to help others reconnect to a simpler food system by providing mindful food and delicious recipes. She joins the Full Moon family along with her husband, her dog, and her two chickens.